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LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --IBM (NYSE: IBM) will host a live panel discussion and media event with leaders from Daimler AG and ExxonMobil discussing how quantum computing will radically change the world in a CES Super Session today, January 8, from 3:00-4:00 p.m. PST. The panel will be available via livestream starting at 3:00 p.m. PST here.Watch to understand why many believe quantum is the next big thing in technology and how it promises to unlock tremendous value including the discovery of new drugs and materials, batteries that are 1000x better, efficient supply chains and new transportation systems.

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Column Just before Christmas, Google claimed quantum supremacy. The company had configured a quantum computer to produce results that would take conventional computers some 10,000 years to replicate - a landmark event.

Bollocks, said IBM - which also has big investments both in quantum computing and not letting Google get away with stuff. Using Summit, the world's largest conventional supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee, IBM claimed it could do the same calculation in a smidge over two days.

As befits all things quantum, the truth is a bit of both. IBM's claim is fair enough - but it's right at the edge of Summit's capability and frankly a massive waste of its time. Google could, if it wished, tweak the quantum calculation to move it out of that range. And it might: the calculation was chosen precisely not because it was easy, but because it was hard. Harder is better.

Google's quantum CPU has 54 qubits, quantum bits that can stay in a state of being simultaneously one and zero. The active device itself is remarkably tiny, a silicon chip around a centimetre square, or four times the size of the Z80 die in your childhood ZX Spectrum. On top of the silicon, a nest of aluminium tickled by microwaves hosts the actual qubits. The aluminium becomes superconducting below around 100K, but the very coldest part of the circuit is just 15 millikelvins. At this temperature the qubits have low enough noise to survive long enough to be useful

By configuring the qubits in a circuit, setting up data and analysing the patterns that emerge when the superpositions are observed and thus collapse to either one or zero, Google can determine the probable correct outcome for the problem the circuit represents. 54 qubits, if represented in conventional computer terms, would need 254 bits of RAM to represent each step of the calculation, or two petabytes' worth. Manipulating this much data many times over gives the 10 millennia figure Google claims.

IBM, on the other hand, says that it has just enough disk space on Summit to store the complete calculation. However you do it, though, it's not very useful; the only application is in random number generation. That's a fun, important and curiously nuanced field, but you don't really need a refrigerator stuffed full of qubits to get there. You certainly don't need the 27,648 NVidia Tesla GPUs in Summit chewing through 16 megawatts of power.

What Google is actually doing is known in the trade as "pulling a Steve", from the marketing antics of the late Steve Jobs. In particular, his tour at NeXT Inc, the company he started in the late 1980s to annoy Apple and produce idiosyncratic workstations. Hugely expensive to make and even more so to buy, the NeXT systems were never in danger of achieving dominance - but you wouldn't know that from Jobs' pronouncements. He declared market supremacy at every opportunity, although in carefully crafted phrases that critics joked defined the market as "black cubic workstations running NeXTOS."

Much the same is true of Google's claim. The calculation is carefully crafted to do precisely the things that Google's quantum computer can do - the important thing isn't the result, but the journey. Perhaps the best analogy is with the Wright Brothers' first flight: of no practical use, but tremendous significance.

What happened to NeXT? It got out of hardware and concentrated on software, then Jobs sold it - and himself - to Apple, and folded in some of that software into MacOS development. Oh, and some cat called Berners-Lee built something called the World Wide Web on a Next Cube.

Nothing like this will happen with Google's technology. There's no new web waiting to be borne on the wings of supercooled qubits. Even some of the more plausible things, like quantum decryption of internet traffic, is a very long way from reality - and, once it happens, it's going to be relatively trivial to tweak conventional encryption to defeat it. But the raw demonstration, that a frozen lunchbox consuming virtually no power in its core can outperform a computer chewing through enough wattage to keep a small town going, is a powerful inducement for more work.

That's Google's big achievement. So many new and promising technologies have failed not because they could never live up to expectations but because they cant survive infancy. Existing, established technology has all the advantages: it generates money, it has distribution channels, it has an army of experts behind it, and it can adjust to close down challengers before they get going. To take just one company - Intel has tried for decades to break out of the x86 CPU prison. New wireless standards, new memory technologies, new chip architectures, new display systems, new storage and security ideas - year after year, the company casts about for something new that'll make money. It never gets there.

Google's "quantum supremacy" isn't there either, but it has done enough to protect its infant prince in its superconducting crib. That's worth a bit of hype.

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The new decade will unfurl a bag of seismic shifts, predicts the creator of Cardano and Ethereum, Charles Hoskinson. And these changes will propel cryptocurrency and blockchain solutions to the forefront as legacy systems buckle, transform or dissolve.

In an ask-me-anything session uploaded on January 3rd, the 11th birthday of Bitcoin, Hoskinson acknowledges how the popular cryptocurrency gave him an eye-opening introduction to the world of global finance, and he recounts how dramatically official attitudes and perceptions have changed.

Every central bank in the world is aware of cryptocurrencies and some are even taking positions in cryptocurrencies. Theres really never been a time in human history where one piece of technology has obtained such enormous global relevance without any central coordinated effort, any central coordinated marketing. No company controls it and the revolution is just getting started.

And he expects its emergence to coalesce with other epic changes. In a big picture reveal, Hoskinson plots some of the major events he believes will shape the new decade.

2020 Predictions

Hoskinson says the consequences of these technologies will reach every government service and that cryptocurrencies will gain an opening once another economic collapse similar to 2008 shakes the markets this decade.

I think that means its a great opening for cryptocurrencies to be ready to start taking over the global economy.

Hoskinson adds that hes happy to be alive to witness all of the changes he anticipates, including a reorganization of the media.

This is the last decade of traditional organized media, in my view. Were probably going to have less CNNs and Fox Newses and Bloombergs and Wall Street Journals and more Joe Rogans, especially as we enter the 2025s and beyond. And I think our space in particular is going to fundamentally change the incentives of journalism. And well actually move to a different way of paying for content, curating content.

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DUBLIN, Jan. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The "High Performance Computing (HPC) Market by Component, Infrastructure, Services, Price Band, HPC Applications, Deployment Types, Industry Verticals, and Regions 2020-2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

This report evaluates the HPC market including companies, solutions, use cases, and applications. Analysis includes HPC by organizational size, software and system type, server type, and price band, and industry verticals. The report also assesses the market for integration of various artificial intelligence technologies in HPC. It also evaluates the exascale-level HPC market including analysis by component, hardware type, service type, and industry vertical.

High Performance Computing (HPC) may be provided via a supercomputer or via parallel processing techniques such as leveraging clusters of computers to aggregate computing power. HPC is well-suited for applications that require high performance data computation such as certain financial services, simulations, and various R&D initiatives.

The market is currently dominated on the demand side by large corporations, universities, and government institutions by way of capabilities that are often used to solve very specific problems for large institutions. Examples include financial services organizations, government R&D facilities, universities research, etc.

However, the cloud-computing based as a Service model allows HPC market offerings to be extended via HPC-as-a-Service (HPCaaS) to a much wider range of industry verticals and companies, thereby providing computational services to solve a much broader array of problems. Industry use cases are increasingly emerging that benefit from HPC-level computing, many of which benefit from split processing between localized device/platform and HPCaaS.

In fact, HPCaaS is poised to become much more commonly available, partially due to new on-demand supercomputer service offerings, and in part as a result of emerging AI-based tools for engineers. Accordingly, up to 45% of revenue will be directly attributable to the cloud-based business model via HPCaaS, which makes High-Performance Computing solutions available to a much wider range of industry verticals and companies, thereby providing computational services to solve a much broader array of problems.

In a recent study, we conducted interviews with major players in the market as well as smaller, lesser known companies that are believed to be influential in terms of innovative solutions that are likely to drive adoption and usage of both cluster-based HPC and supercomputing.

In an effort to identify growth opportunities for the HPC market, we investigated market gaps including unserved and underserved markets and submarkets. The research and advisory firm uncovered a market situation in which HPC currently suffers from an accessibility problem as well as inefficiencies and supercomputer skill gaps.

Stated differently, the market for HPC as a Service (e.g. access to high-performance computing services) currently suffers from problems related to the utilization, scheduling, and set-up time to run jobs on a supercomputer. We identified start-ups and small companies working to solve these problems.

One of the challenge areas identified is low utilization but (ironically) also high wait times for most supercomputers. Scheduling can be a challenge in terms of workload time estimation. About 20% of jobs are computationally heavy 30% of jobs cannot be defined very well in terms of how long jobs will take (within 3-minute window at best). In many instances, users request substantive resources and don't actually use computing time.

In addition to the scheduling challenge, we also identified a company focused on solving additional problems such as computational planning and engineering. We spoke with the principal of a little-known company called Microsurgeonbot, Inc. (doing business as MSB.ai), which is developing a tool for setting up computing jobs for supercomputers.

The company is working to solve major obstacles in accessibility and usability for HPC resources. The company focuses on solving a very important problem in HPC: Supercomputer job set-up and skills gap. Their solution known as "Guru" is poised to make supercomputing much more accessible, especially to engineers in small to medium-sized businesses that do not have the same resources or expertise as large corporate entities.

Key Topics Covered

1 Executive Summary1.1 Companies in Report1.2 Target Audience1.3 Methodology

2 Introduction2.1 Next Generation Computing2.2 High Performance Computing2.2.1 HPC Technology2.2.1.1 Supercomputers2.2.1.2 Computer Clustering2.2.2 Exascale Computation2.2.2.1 United States2.2.2.2 China2.2.2.3 Europe2.2.2.4 Japan2.2.2.5 India2.2.2.6 Taiwan2.2.3 High Performance Technical Computing2.2.4 Market Segmentation Considerations2.2.4.1 Government, NGOs, and Universities2.2.4.2 Small Companies and Middle Market2.2.5 Use Cases and Application Areas2.2.5.1 Computer Aided Engineering2.2.5.2 Government2.2.5.3 Financial Services2.2.5.4 Education and Research2.2.5.5 Manufacturing2.2.5.6 Media and Entertainment2.2.5.7 Electronic Design Automation2.2.5.8 Bio-Sciences and Healthcare2.2.5.9 Energy Management and Utilities2.2.5.10 Earth Science2.2.6 Regulatory Framework2.2.7 Value Chain Analysis2.2.8 AI to Drive HPC Performance and Adoption

3 High Performance Computing Market Analysis and Forecast 2020-20253.1 Global High Performance Computing Market 2020-20253.1.1 Total High Performance Computing Market 2020-20253.1.2 High Performance Computing Market by Component 2020-20253.1.2.1 High Performance Computing Market by Hardware and Infrastructure Type 2020-20253.1.2.1.1 High Performance Computing Market by Server Type 2020-20253.1.2.2 High Performance Computing Market by Software and System Type 2020-20253.1.2.3 High Performance Computing Market by Professional Service Type 2020-20253.1.3 High Performance Computing Market by Deployment Type 2020-20253.1.4 High Performance Computing Market by Organization Size 2020-20253.1.5 High Performance Computing Market by Server Price Band 2020-20253.1.6 High Performance Computing Market by Application Type 2020-20253.1.6.1 High Performance Technical Computing Market by Industry Vertical 2020-20253.1.6.2 Critical High Performance Business Computing Market by Industry Vertical 2020-20253.1.1 High Performance Computing Deployment Options: Supercomputer vs. Clustering 2020-20253.1.2 High Performance Computing as a Service (HPCaaS) 2020-20253.1.3 AI Powered High Performance Computing Market3.1.3.1 AI Powered High Performance Computing Market by Component3.1.3.2 AI Powered High Performance Computing Market by AI Technology3.2 Regional High Performance Computing Market 2020-20253.3 Exascale Computing Market 2020-20253.3.1 Exascale Computing Driven HPC Market by Component 2020-20253.3.2 Exascale Computing Driven HPC Market by Hardware Type 2020-20253.3.3 Exascale Computing Driven HPC Market by Service Type 2020-20253.3.4 Exascale Computing Driven HPC Market by Industry Vertical 2020-20253.3.1 Exascale Computing as a Service 2020-2025

4 High Performance Computing Company Analysis4.1 HPC Vendor Ecosystem4.2 Leading HPC Companies4.2.1 Amazon Web Services Inc.4.2.2 Atos SE4.2.3 Adavnced Micro Devices Inc.4.2.4 Cisco Systems4.2.5 DELL Technologies Inc.4.2.6 Fujitsu Ltd.4.2.7 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)4.2.8 IBM Corporation4.2.9 Intel Corporation4.2.10 Microsoft Corporation4.2.11 NEC Corporation4.2.12 NVIDIA4.2.13 Rackspace Inc.4.1 Companies to Watch4.1.1 Braket Inc.4.1.1 MicroSurgeonBot Inc. (MSB.ai)

5 Conclusions and Recommendations5.1 AI to Support Adoption and Usage of HPC5.2 5G and 6G to Drive Increased Demand for HPC

6 Appendix: Future of Computing6.1 Quantum Computing6.1.1 Quantum Computing Technology6.1.2 Quantum Computing Considerations6.1.3 Market Challenges and Opportunities6.1.4 Recent Developments6.1.5 Quantum Computing Value Chain6.1.6 Quantum Computing Applications6.1.7 Competitive Landscape6.1.8 Government Investment in Quantum Computing6.1.9 Quantum Computing Stakeholders by Country6.1 Other Future Computing Technologies6.1.1 Swarm Computing6.1.2 Neuromorphic Computing6.1.3 Biocomputing6.2 Market Drivers for Future Computing Technologies6.2.1 Efficient Computation and High Speed Storage6.2.2 Government and Private Initiatives6.2.3 Flexible Computing6.2.4 AI-enabled, High Performance Embedded Devices, Chipsets, and ICs6.2.5 Cost Effective Computing powered by Pay-as-you-go Model6.3 Future Computing Market Challenges6.3.1 Data Security Concerns in Virtualized and Distributed Cloud6.3.2 Funding Constrains R&D Activities6.3.3 Lack of Skilled Professionals across the Sector6.3.4 Absence of Uniformity among NGC Branches including Data Format

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An arson investigation is underway after a fire ripped through a house in Radford.

The property in Denman Street Central is currently taped off and crime scene investigation units are at the scene.

Firefighters were called to the scene at 7.11pm on Wednesday, January 8, and three crews from London Road, Highfields and Stockhill tackled the blaze.

Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service said it had been using sniffer dogs to detect accelerants - which are used to ignite and increase the speed in which a fire develops - within the property.

A spokesman for the service said: "We have got the fire investigation dog there at the moment as part of the investigation.

"The dog is there to look for any kinds of accelerants at the scene.

"Four breathing apparatus were used by four firefighters who used two hose reel jets and a thermal imaging camera."

A building in the street has been visibly gutted by the fire, but surrounding properties are unaffected.

Head of prevention and protection at Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, Damien West, praised the quick work of the service in stopping the incident developing and spreading to other properties.

"Swift, effective action by Notts fire crews stopped this incident developing further and thankfully there were no injuries," the senior fire official said.

"A joint investigation in to the cause will take place tomorrow (January 9). Well have crews in the area to reassure and support the local community."

Nottinghamshire Police said it is now investigating reports of arson at the property and is appealing for information.

A force spokesman added: "Officers investigating a report of a arson in Radford last night (Wednesday 8 January 2020) are appealing for information and witnesses.

"Nottinghamshire Police was called to Denman Street Central at around 7.10pm after reports of a house fire on fire.

"No one was injured in the incident but detectives are no appealing for information that could aid them in their investigation.

"Detective Sergeant Chris Berryman, of Nottinghamshire Police, said: We are working hard to establish the circumstances of the fire.

Anyone who may have witnessed the fire or has any information that could aid us in our investigation, please do not hesitate to contact us on Nottinghamshire Police via 101 quoting incident number 732 of 8 January 2020.

Alternatively, you can contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

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